1827 - 1912 (84 years)
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Name |
MILES, Daniel Curtis |
Birth |
21 Jun 1827 |
Westminster, MA [3] |
Gender |
Male |
_COLOR |
11 |
Death |
23 Feb 1912 |
Washington, DC |
Burial |
Westminster, MA |
Address: Woodside Cemetery |
Person ID |
I16405 |
Puffers |
Last Modified |
17 Mar 2021 |
Family |
PUFFER, Lucy Ann, b. 25 Aug 1828, Ashburnham, MA d. 9 Feb 1869 (Age 40 years) |
Marriage |
2 May 1851 |
Westminster, MA [3, 4] |
Children |
| 1. MILES, Mary Josephine, b. 11 Dec 1852, Westminster, MA d. 12 Dec 1934, Pasadena, CA (Age 82 years) |
| 2. MILES, George Melville, b. 25 Oct 1854, Westminster, MA d. 15 Jan 1935, Portland, OR (Age 80 years) |
| 3. MILES, Herbert Judson, b. 5 Jun 1856, Westminster, MA d. 27 Jul 1929, Park, MT (Age 73 years) |
| 4. MILES, Arthur Wellington, b. 20 Jun 1859, Westminster, MA d. 1933, Los Angeles, CA (Age 73 years) |
| 5. MILES, Martha Gertrude, b. 23 Apr 1865, Westminster, MA d. 23 May 1880 (Age 15 years) |
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Family ID |
F8752 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
17 Mar 2024 |
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Photos
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2 Photos |
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Notes |
- For many years a national bank examiner, brother of General Nelson A. Miles. He engaged in the lumber business and manufacture of chairs. He was president of the Westminster National Bank; selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor, auditor of the town; served on the school committee. He was for 20 years superintendent of the Sunday School of the Baptist Church.
When his brother-in-law, Edward James Puffer, fell in battle at Gettysburg, he returned to that battle sight to retrieve his body which had lain in a battlefield grave. Be brought the body back on the first train that left Gettysburg after the battle to be reinterred in MA. (Biographical Review of Worcester County, MA, Volume XXX, 1899)
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Sources |
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 192-193.
- [S1314] Biographical Review of Worcester County, MA, Volume XXX, 1899, page 117.
- [S1314] Biographical Review of Worcester County, MA, Volume XXX, 1899.
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 192.
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